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Surveys in the next several days will show what kind of bounce President Bush receives from the convention, as well as mark the Labor Day positions of Mr. Bush and Senator John Kerry in their quest for the presidency. That the two indicators come...

September 5, 2004, Sunday

IF you are making travel arrangements online, the best advice is: shop around. Each of the top travel sites has its advantages and disadvantages, and all of them are at your fingertips. The extra time you spend could well be paid back through greater...

May 7, 2002, Tuesday

THE number of online merchants may have dwindled, but price competition among the survivors is fierce. For shoppers, the savings can be substantial: the new Billie Holiday CD box set sells for $154 at one online store but for $127 at another; a...

''Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice.'' Hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages like that have now been received by users across the Internet, the result of a virus called ''SirCam.'' Like several predecessors,...

August 3, 1997, Sunday

Jeffrey Schmalz, a journalist who wrote with passion and insight about the determination and despair of AIDS sufferers, died of complications of the disease yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 39. When his illness was discovered three years...

LEAD: A decade after it began accumulating a vast stock of rundown apartment houses, New York City finds itself unable to manage them, repair them, return them to private landlords or improve the abysmal conditions for the tens of thousands of people...

LEAD: New York's highest court yesterday barred the state from prosecuting Stanley M. Friedman, the former Bronx Democratic leader, and a colleague on corruption charges, asserting that to do so after their Federal convictions would violate...